Radiohead closed Fuji Rock festival in Japan with a 23-song headline set last night (July 29). Walking on stage at the stroke of 9.30pm, the five-piece strolled through "Lotus Flower" and "Bloom" from The King Of Limbs and "15 Step" from In Rainbows in quick succession, to the delight of the 50,000-strong crowd. Songs from The King Of Limbs and In Rainbows made up most of the rest of the set, with just a handful of songs from The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail To The Thief featuring.

Been talking for a while now about how I think Six Organs Of Admittance’s “Ascent” is one of the best albums of 2012, and I’ve finally written about it at length in the new issue of Uncut. Anyhow, Ben Chasny responded to a bunch of questions I sent over with a characteristic diligence, and I figured it was worth posting the whole exchange here. Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JohnRMulvey

Former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash has announced a full UK solo tour for later this year. The guitarist, who released his second solo album Apocalyptic Love in May, will play five shows across the UK in October. The gigs begin in Edinburgh at the city's Corn Exchange on October 7 and run until October 15 when the guitarist and his band headline Newcastle's O2 Academy. The run of gigs also includes shows in Manchester, Birmingham and London.

Animal Collective have unveiled their new single "Today's Supernatural". Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to listen to the track. The track is the first to be taken from the Baltimore electro-psych band's new album Centipede Hz. The album, which is the band's first studio effort since 2009's Merriweather Post Pavillion, will be released on September 3. It will be their 10th album and follows the release of 2010's "visual album" ODDSAC.

Feminist punk collective Pussy Riot have claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin is scared of them, on the eve of the trial of three of their members. The three members of the band - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich - have been in pre-trial detention since March of this year, after they staged a protest against Russian President Vladmir Putin. A court recently ruled that the three women will remain in custody until January 12, 2013, however legal arguments will be heard tomorrow (July 30).

Just a follow up to my post earlier this week about the new Bob Dylan album, around which a certain excitement seems to be accumulating. As I mentioned, the album features ten new Dylan songs that I can now give titles to, including “Roll On John”, the album’s closing track, a wistful tribute to John Lennon that quotes lines from several Beatles songs, including “Come Together” and “A Day In The Life”.

The new issue of Uncut, which hits shelves today (July 27), features Joe Strummer, Captain Beefheart, Bob Dylan and Animal Collective. Strummer is on the cover, and inside is the story of the late Clash legend’s secret history – the wilderness years between the end of his group and his final creative rebirth. Captain Beefheart’s whole story is told by The Magic Band, while Bob Dylan’s live show at Hop Farm is reviewed and Animal Collective talk us through their back catalogue.

Public Image Ltd., Buzzcocks and Bow Wow Wow are amongst the bands set to play the 15th annual Rebellion punk music festival in Blackpool next month. Taking place at the city's Winter Gardens venue from August 2-5, the event will also see sets from Rancid, Social Distortion, Stiff Little Fingers, The Only Ones, Agnostic Front, Goldblade, the Fits and Slaughter and the Dogs, with over 150 bands playing the event.

Metallica have revealed that they plan to enter the studio this autumn in order to record their new album. The band's drummer Lars Ulrich said they will start working on the follow-up to Death Magnetic, which was released in 2008, in September.

Graham Nash has contradicted claims by his CSN band mate, Stephen Stills, that the trio would record again. In an interview last month with www.musicradar.com, Stills explained that the sessions the band had been working on with producer Rick Rubin had ground to a halt, and then claimed: "We won't make another album."